Episode Overview: We’ve reached the end of the road for 2019 on the Voices of Search podcast, rounding out the year taking one final look at data from Black Friday’s aftermath. Join host Ben and Searchmetrics CEO Jordan Koene as they review some of the big winners and the key winning strategies from Black Friday. Also, Ben and Jordan take a moment to reflect on the Voices of Search’s growth in 2019 and share with listeners what they can expect from the podcast in 2020. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: In the spirit of giving this holiday season Searchmetrics is sharing a huge gift from Google with our listeners. Google shared the top 100 products users searched in Google’s Shopping Experience with a select group of SEOs before releasing the data to the public. Join Ben and Searchmetrics’ CEO Jordan Koene as they review Searchmetrics’ analysis of Google’s Shopping Experience data and reveal the greater implications the data holds for the future of holiday search. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: One inquisitive search is sometimes all it takes to inspire a career change to SEO. FastSpring’s Hamilton Kiah applied his vast portfolio of multimedia production skills to SEO and became a known, trusted digital media strategist. Join Ben as he interviews Kiah on when he first discovered his passion for SEO, how his robust multimedia production skills closely align with core SEO practices and how it has led him to develop a lucrative career. Show NotesConnect With: Hamilton Kiah: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Retail giants swept the field once again on Black Friday 2019, with Amazon expanding its online dominion and Best Buy experiencing visibility gains in mobile and desktop. Meanwhile, home furniture companies Wayfair and Overstock along with staple retail giants like Nordstrom and Kohl’s found themselves at the mercy of the Big 10. Join Ben and Searchmetrics’ Director of Services Tyson Stockton as they review who emerged victorious and who fell during the battle of Black Friday 2019. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Reviewing performance analytics data after a busy holiday season is like opening presents on Christmas morning for SEOs. Join Ben and Searchmetrics’ Director of Services Tyson as they conclude Holiday Triage week with a final discussion on how to best measure your holiday triage efforts and how to utilize performance analytics to inform your 2020 holiday season SEO strategies. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Like an ornately adorned Christmas tree, your content needs all the decorative fixings to build awareness and truly stand out amidst your competitors this holiday season. Join Ben and Searchmetrics' Director of Services Tyson as they continue Holiday Triage week. They discuss the various ways to build holiday content awareness, and the added value cross-functional gift giving presents in awareness-building efforts to give your content the capstone shining star to top off your content tree. Show Notes Connect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: The busy holiday season leaves little time to act quickly with your SEO optimization efforts. You may have completely compiled your keyword lists and efficiently set your priorities straight, but the road to success depends on what optimization processes you use. Join Ben and Tyson for the third day of Holiday Triage week as they discuss the best optimization techniques to generate success within a short timeframe and which harmful techniques to avoid altogether. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: When it comes to last minute SEO optimizations, knowing where to start and what to prioritize is key to winning the optimization battle. Join host Ben and Searchmetrics’ Director of Services Tyson Stockton as they continue their Holiday Triage week discussion reviewing one of the most vital steps in the Holiday Triage week checklist – prioritization. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Santa is always making his list and checking it twice, and Searchmetrics is following suit with our holiday triage mode checklist to help keep SEOs on track during a hectic holiday season. Join Ben and Searchmetrics’ Director of Services Tyson Stockton as they kickoff Holiday Triage Mode week reviewing the first step – building and assessing your holiday keyword list. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Excellent SEO strategies depend on strong cross-functional relationships to effectively succeed. Building sturdy cross-functional relationships require meticulous cultivation much like building a strong SEO strategy requires. Join Ben as he catches up with returning guest Ryan Purtill from Healthline Media on how to build a culture of collaboration to boost department-wide success within a company and how to navigate common difficult relationships between PPC and organic search focused teams. Show NotesConnect With: Ryan Purtill: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: One reliable constant that keeps the SEO industry on its toes is SEO’s never ending variability. Keeping up with the endless changes is a huge task on its own on top of executing a successful marketing plan, but maintaining industry awareness is one of the best ways to stay ahead of the curve. Join Ben and Jordan as they launch Searchmetrics’ first breaking news episode where they aim to increase awareness of industry changes and updates as they discuss three breaking news stories impacting SEO. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Google's algorithm updates shook up the SEO landscape in 2019, forcing expert SEOs to question what the best method is to evaluate their content's performance throughout a year full of changes. Join Ben as he chats with SEO expert John Lincoln from Ignite Visibility, who was recently named the Search Marketer of the Year by Search Engine Land, as he shares his expertise on the best way to evaluate your content's performance in 2019 and how to create a new content marketing roadmap for 2020 inspired by the year's changes. Show NotesConnect With: John Lincoln: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: In order to take a confidently informed step forward with your SEO plans and goals for the next year, it’s important to take a retrospective look back to ensure your plan starts off on the right foot. Join Ben and Jordan as they examine the best method to formulating a SEO strategy for next year, explain the benefits of inter-departmental goal setting and the different ways you can develop new career paths within SEO in 2020. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Speculation and uncertainty surround Google’s sudden BERT algorithm update, raising questions among experts in the industry on how big of an impact it will have on search and marketing strategies. Join host Ben and Searchmetrics’ Jordan Koene as they discuss BERT’s initial impact, how it’s changing the way Google analyzes context behind user search queries and how companies should avoid making abrupt, reactionary changes to their marketing strategies. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: The last series of Google algorithm updates, including the latest BERT update, are flying like a flurry of boxing jabs, with BERT being the most recent surprise jab from the tech giant. Some companies are successfully dodging the latest punches and coming out on top, while other companies have been taking them square on the chin. Join Ben and Tyson as they discuss some of the early SEO winners and which companies got KO’ed by BERT in the latest Google algorithm update round. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Flowers can’t truly bloom and stand out amongst the foliage without a little pruning – the same can be said for content on your website. Trimming excess content may sound harmful to your content strategy, but pruning excess content to enhance your high-performing content can significantly improve your content marketing efforts. Join Ben as he welcomes back Eric Enge, general manager for digital marketing at Perficient Digital, to discuss successful approaches to content trimming and how to prevent trimming too much. Show Notes Connect With: Eric Enge: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Content collateral are like bricks – a single brick doesn’t hold much value but assembling thousands together provide a foundation and create a superstructure that can take your content marketing efforts to new heights. Join Ben as he concludes his interview with Robert Rose, chief strategy advisor at the Content Marketing Institute, as they discuss how to develop and grow a powerful content portfolio and how to evaluate a single piece of content’s worth in relation to your greater content collection. Show NotesConnect With:Robert Rose: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: The modern digital landscape provides robust tools and abundant resources that any business can use to easily create their own content, but it takes an efficiently structured content team to truly achieve your business’ content marketing goals. Join Ben as he continues his Content Optimization Month discussion with Content Marketing Institute’s Robert Rose as he explains the pros and cons of different content marketing team organizational structures and the best way to create and structure your own powerhouse content marketing team. Show Notes Connect With:Robert Rose: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Ineffective content marketing strategies are plaguing the competitive marketing landscape, obscuring and limiting the reach of content for everyone striving for visibility in their respective industries. Join host Ben as he welcomes back content expert Robert Rose from the Content Marketing Institute as he leads a discussion on the current state of content marketing and clarifies the essential content strategies companies need to practice to elevate and separate their content from the chaff. Show NotesConnect With:Robert Rose: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: In the fast-paced, ever changing world of SEO quick decision making matters. Time is a valuable currency; spend too much of it on content optimization and you stand to lose gains in other aspects of your content strategy. Join our host Ben as he concludes High Value Content Week with a final discussion on how to best prioritize your time when evaluating and optimizing content with Searchmetrics’ Content Lead Marlon Glover. Show Notes Connect With:Marlon Glover: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Syndicating high value content on various channels like social media, email and video outlets is a powerful method to expand your content’s reach, but a poorly executed content syndication plan can pose a significant risk to your ranking endeavors. Join Ben and Searchmetrics’ Content Lead Marlon Glover as they continue their High Value Content Week discussion by evaluating content syndication benefits, reviewing useful tools to aid your syndication efforts and why customer engagement is crucial to a successful plan. Show Notes Connect With:Marlon Glover: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: A plethora of tools and techniques exist in SEO to help elevate, extend and maximize the reach of your content, but it can be difficult to decide which methods best suit you and your business. Join Ben as he continues High Value Content Week with Searchmetrics’ very own Content Lead Marlon Glover as they discuss tips and strategies to boost and maximize the reach of your best and non-performing content. Show NotesConnect With:Marlon Glover: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode overview: Jockeying for the top ranking spot, known as position zero, on Google is no easy feat and requires a level of content optimization finesse to realistically achieve. Although securing the top spot is ideal, there's no guarantee it can surpass the traffic numbers competitors ranked in spots two and three can gain. Join Ben and Searchmetrics' Content Lead Marlon Glover as they continue their High Value Content Week discussion on how to edge past the competition with your existing high-value content to secure the coveted top ranking spot on Google and the different ways you can optimize your current valuable content to competitively draw traffic to your site without achieving position zero. Show NotesConnect With:Marlon Glover: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: In a vast sea of content, it’s easy for high-value content to get lost and sink below the waves. Join Ben as he kicks off high value content week with Searchmetrics’ very own Content Lead Marlon Glover to discuss how to identify and elevate your high-potential content with essential strategies and how to seize key opportunities to separate your content from the competition. Show NotesConnect With:Marlon Glover: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: There’s no guarantee taking a big risk in SEO will pay off. Blush Digital CEO Jim Christian’s leap of faith from aerospace engineering into the ever-changing sea of SEO is one exceptional story, whose career change led him to found Blush Digital and the burgeoning Advanced Search Summit for SEOs. Ben interviewed Christian to learn more about his exciting career transition from the complex field of aerospace engineering to SEO. Show NotesConnect With:Jim Christian: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Overview: How does a brand successfully leverage organic content utilizing paid content? The separation between organic and paid content used to be much like the separation of Church and State until brands began using paid channels to boost organic search rankings to much success. On this episode of Voices of Search Ben Shapiro spoke with expert Amine Bentahar from Advantix Digital on how brands successfully optimize their organic content using paid channels and what key strategies and data acquisition processes contribute to their success. Show NotesConnect With: Amine Bentahar: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode overview: Industry heavyweights Amazon and Walmart are already experiencing success after Google’s September 2019 core algorithm update went live less than a month ago, despite the lack of data available. Initial impressions suggest the update is placing a greater focus on user expectations and a need to fulfill EAT and YMYL principles. Ben Shapiro spoke with Jordan Koene on a special edition episode of Voices of Search to discuss immediate update takeaways, what companies are already benefitting or falling behind after the update and how their own practices and organizational structures are impacting their progress. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Why do many companies with great reputations over-optimize their content, which hinders their users’ experience? Excellent content needs a combination of outstanding content quality combined with a stellar user experience to truly gain the loyalty and dedication of your customers. Join Ben and Jordan Koene as they break down the essentials of content optimization and how to avoid common pitfalls that sabotage many successful brands. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: With a little more than a week to determine the impact of the latest Google core update and the Real News update, some early winners are emerging with BuzzFeed as the biggest surprise followed by Spotify while YouTube continues to dominate the entertainment category. Join Tyson Stockton and Ben as they suss out the post-update landscape. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Ben and Jordan tackle the rapid-fire series of Google algorithm updates that began on September 10th with no-follow attribution changes (and additions), September 12th with original news reporting and the 18th with rich results clarifications. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Learn about the audacious site migration that allowed Dan Petrovic and Dejan marketing to escape and correct a severe manual Google penalty while dropping his link profile from 13,000 to 77 links. Show NotesConnect With:Dan Petrovic: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: What could lead a well-known Australian SEO agency to delete its entire website and publish a new one? Join Dan Petrovic of Dejan Marketing and learn how a brilliant bit of link building turned into disaster (and how they recovered). Show NotesConnect With:Dan Petrovic: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: In the final episode of Grey Hat Week, we take a look at the how to diagnose, define and adjust to the full range of penalties doled out by Google as they catch up to Grey Hat tactics over time. Show NotesConnect With: Joe Sinkwitz: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: When viewed through the right lens, hyper-personalization, user testing and conversion rate optimization are tactics that savvy SEO’s can use to boost performance. Learn how with Joe Sinkwitz from Digital Heretix. Show NotesConnect With: Joe Sinkwitz: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: We’re joined again by Joe Sinkwitz, principal of Digtial Heretix and CEO and co-founder of Intellifluence. Listen in as Ben and Joe dig into grey hat strategies for key word stuffing and content hacks as well as slipping into the dark side with content stripping and republishing. Show NotesConnect With: Joe Sinkwitz: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Despite rumours to the contrary, purchasing backlinks remains a popular grey hat tactic for increasing domain authority. In this episode, Ben and Joe dig into the art of purchasing backlinks while remaining in the fuzzy grey zone. Show NotesConnect With: Joe Sinkwitz: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Join us for the kick-off of grey hat week with Joe Sinkowitz of Digital Heretix as he and Ben explore the landscape of back linking, keyword stuffing and cloaking with a little brand reputation management thrown in for good measure. Show NotesConnect With: Joe Sinkwitz: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Grey Hat SEO is an ill defined practice as much as it is a danger zone for marketers. Join Jordan and Ben to understand the boundaries and risks of operating in the Grey zone. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Black Hat SEO. It’s easy to dismiss it as a set of tactics long overcome by Google guidelines. But as link farms die, cloaking tactics become more sophisticated. And in the case of our host Ben, a misunderstanding of Google guidelines let to black hat penalties that torpedoed an acquisition. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Navigating the waters of Google compliance. It used to be an art form, now it’s just good SEO practice to hue to ‘white hat’ SEO practices. In this episode, Ben and Jordan discuss the guidelines and requirements and how to understand them to follow great Google SEO practices and hygiene. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: August saw Facebook rebound, Twitter slide and Netsuite soften while YouTube continues to dominate SEO visibility. Will Twitter correct their slide? Does Sling have a chance? And, how much the long tails of the Game of Thrones benefit HBO as the summer comes to an end? Travel There’s good news for Travelocity who made up lost ground after the horror show of late 2018. Booking.com stabilized after a rough spring while Expedia and Kayak lost ground after 24-month highs. Streaming Services Though not roughly tossed into the loser category, Netsuite visibility softened over the summer with the collection of HBO properties benefiting and also rans like sling continue to shrink; was HBO’s gain a Game of Thrones bump or just Raider Nation lining up to see Chucky at training camp? And of course, YouTube is the big winner here with yet another set of week-over-week gains. Social Facebook is creeping back into the winner’s column as they eclipse the sixteen million SEO visibility mark. Twitter continues to experience trouble, dropping from SEO visibility of eight million to six million. Show NotesConnect With: Tyson Stockton: Website // LinkedInBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Google’s search algorithms must consider the users context: their location, language, custom settings and inherent personalization attributes. Optimal search results depend on it. On the flip side, SEO’s must consider the very same signals and their limited ability to customize their content and settings to reach niche audiences. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Do you know whether your website is sending poor usability signals to Google? Identifying and avoiding the pain points that users encounter and ensuring that your website is not throwing off the signals that cause Google to deprecate otherwise outstanding content is the focus of today’s episode. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Content quality, it’s more than what’s on a single page – it’s everything that surrounds your content, the way that people navigate to it and the performance of your site. Eloquently captured by the acronym E-A-T, and an important recent Google update, SEOs need to consider the relative authority of their content, how Google would measure their expertise and the trust they’ve built around a specific topic. In this episode we dig into the what and how of optimizing for content quality elements. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: The relevancy of your online content and its success in the SERPs depends on sending quantifiable, measurable signals that squarely match the core topic and intent of a given page (aka, the science of SEO). In this episode, Ben and Jordan talk about balancing keywords and page-level assets to send the correct content relevancy signals to Google. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Google’s rise to dominance in the global digital ad market is built on understanding what end users are trying to accomplish. Better known as user intent, Google’s ability to diagnose and parse informational, transactional and navigational queries is a key element of their search algorithms and our starting point for Algorithm Week. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Understanding the nuances and relationships between Google Guidelines and their supporting policies is a mainstay of the SEO community. In the 111th episode of Voices of Search, Jordan returns to give a crash course on Google Guidelines and Policies, how to interpret them and where source the information you’ll need to stay on top. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode Overview: Are ranking factors the Rosetta Stone of the Google Algorithm or just Pig Latin for SEOs? Ben and Jordan draw distinct lines between the two to help our loyal listeners understand the difference. Show NotesConnect With:Jordan Koene: Website // LinkedIn Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn //  TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.